Piano with Michael C.

I began singing in school choirs and playing piano when I was still in elemetary school. By the time I graduated high school, I was teaching lessons and hosting jam-sessions for friends and classmates. I played for tips in local coffee-houses and taprooms, as well as accompanying my high-school's jazz band and assisting with choir rehearsals. I completed my Bachelor's degree in Music Education in Spring of 2020 (in the late days of the before-times) and have been teaching lessons throughout all of this. I firmly believe that it is never too late to get started, and I am experienced in teaching adults as well as children and adolescents. During my time in college, I concurrently enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard, and spent several years playing music with the Coast Guard Band in new London, CT. I am not a teacher who is interested in repetition and memorization. If you want to do C-major scale twenty times, do it at home. Our lessons are about learning to read and write in music, and hear music as a musician, and think in music. Some of those concepts you may have heard of, like functional harmony, or the circle of fifths, will be the bread and butter of our lessons. Not only will I have you playing music, and reading music, in no time- I will give you the skills to go on teaching yourself, rather than simply having you copy me week after week.